The Royal Couple - Museum Gardens - Orlando, Florida.
N 28° 34.209 W 081° 21.985
17R E 464164 N 3160418
'The Royal Couple' a silhouette-style sculpture by Paul Marco, located in the Mennello Museum Grounds - Loch Haven Park - Orlando, Florida.
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Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 05/14/2012
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The Park gardens surrounding The Mennello Museum of American Art, showcases unique and interesting sculptures at every turn. Many of the small welded silhouette-style sculptures, are by Paul Marco.
'The Royal Couple' is a small but interesting thought provoking, sculpture standing approx 5 feet tall, featuring two figures each holding hands, each painted a different colour, the male blue, and the curvy female yellow, both figures standing on a concrete plinth. The plaque is missing from the plinth .
The museum web site shows a photo of this sculpture and names the sculpture 'The Royal Couple' but both figures are painted Lilac, in the photo, and it does not name the Couple represented. One has to ask the question is it Charles & Diana ?
"Czechoslovakian artist Paul Marco’s sculptures exhibit a variety of influences. The unique, rustic forms of his works recall the primitive setting of his home in Maine, while the animals forms and mask-like faces of his figures reflect the artist’s interest in and study of African sculpture and masks. Marco claimed that his art was “rich with association,” as he believed discarded pieces of early American farm equipment he used to create his works were fraught with latent meaning of the contemporary viewer. His works seem to emanate a type of exuberance and joy that comes from a respect for the past cooperating with an eye for creation.
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